powderfreak

This is truly special. You feel for any of the dozen weddings happening around Stowe, ha. Just steady small-droplet sheet rains, gusty winds and it's in the 40s. I just walked over to the Beanery coffee shop in the plaza and two families are buying hot chocolates. No one is outside. Looks like the heavier rain will arrive from the north soon. It's been pouring out of those weak returns banked up against the Spine. Should get nicer when the deeper moisture arrives. Classic winter pattern .

lol car says 45F in the parking lot up outside of Mtn Ops. Hammering NW winds, trees down on the Toll Road. Drenching small droplet sheet rains. Gondi top crew reporting 38F inside the terminal. Break out the winter uniforms .

MWN 29F and wind chill of 10F. Some hiker is going to get into a lot of trouble this weekend.

49F and windy. Some real solid NW gusts. Occasional rain too. Have to make sure the heat doesn’t come on this weekend, ha.

That's bonkers. Almost unbelievable as even model guidance.

Gotta embrace it in the Tropics. That's swamp.

Steinless in Stowe. Now playing in a theater near you. Got wet this evening as a cell popped up over Mansfield and then drifted east into town. Life being downwind of the Spine in summer. Decent rainbow as it moved away.

EPony for a license… love it, assuming it’s for electric pony .

All Eastern Mass ATT. Should be warning amounts back to the River, Advisory amounts back to NY State?

Reindeer sweaters burning and used for heat?

77/52 Yet another June day falling right in the comfort sweet spot. So many highs in the 70s since mid-May.

Some FROPA came through up here. Dew point at 65F with rain showers this morning, now down to 52F and dry breezy weather.

540dm coming for the 4th?

Quick 1/4" rainfall and dews are up. 68/64 right now.... doors and windows wide open. Max temps on Saturday and Sunday will struggle to get to the current dew point.

The first person in history to ever write that sentence.

Cocorahs says that "moderate" area just got the most rainfall in the past week . Ginxy to Taunton especially.

Never gonna happen but still for the date.

75-80F, then 70-75F, now 67-73F. Make adjustments as data comes out.

The Yellowstone flooding has been pretty insane. They are calling it 500-year event type stuff. Google "Yellowstone Flooding" and there's some crazy stuff. Bridges getting washed away, roads gone, even houses or camps getting floated downstream. The rainfall amounts didn't strike me as overly impressive compared to the east, but with snowmelt and the sharp terrain in the Rockies, it apparently can get out of control in a big way.

Be glad you aren't here. .LONG TERM /SATURDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... Saturday is shaping up to be a lousy day for outdoor activities, with an usually cold air mass overhead and a period of gusty north winds making it feel even chillier. Have trended temperatures downward with highs only in the 50s in most areas, with some low 60s in the wide valleys. The latest NAEFS mean wind at 850 millibars is near climatological maximum for northerly flow, with about 30 knots across our region shown at 2 PM. While a low level inversion supports channeled northerly flow in the Champlain Valley, elsewhere mainly stable conditions would keeping wind speeds modest, unable to tap into that stronger wind aloft. However, that will change late in the day or possibly overnight when rapid pressure rises generate a strong isollabaric wind field and widespread gusty north winds develop. Have not added too much of this stronger wind to the forecast at this time but will likely see a period of gusts above 30 MPH Saturday night. Sunday is shaping up to be a little warmer although still below normal as northerly flow persists, possibly trending northwesterly. Relative humidity will fall during the day with anomalously low precipitable water indicative of a dry air mass centered over the region, although even lower values will be to our south and west. NBM dew points are only in the 30s, which would yield minimum RH values in the 30 to 35% range but potentially below 30%.

What about the NAM? It’s colder than the GFS. So is Reggie. ICON is similar to GFS. Why toss everything other than one Op run of the EURO? Either way it looks mainly sunny and fine, it’s just funny the resistance you have to all other guidance. Who cares if it’s in the 60s? Next time an Op run shows 90+, hopefully all the data will be weighed accordingly.

Better than the 55F up here both days, ha. Thats nice weather, briefly hitting 70-71F with dews around 40F and strong downslope dandy NW wind.

That’s a bit better… sneaks many just over the 70F threshold.